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Soulwax performing at M.I.A.s Meltdown

Artistic hire form

Thank you for your interest in artistic hire at Southbank Centre. In order to consider any request to hire one of our auditoria, we require the following information to be supplied to us. Please note that due to high demand, availability in our venues can be extremely limited and we cannot guarantee any date being available for hire. We are only able to consider enquiries relating to the Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall at this time. If your project is of interest, a member of the team will get back to you in due course

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Southbank Centre Promoter Information

Name(Required)
Company address(Required)
Contact Email Address(Required)

Southbank Centre Promoter Experience

Please provide details on who the Promoter is and their experience of live event promotion, especially in other major London venues. We must ensure that anyone hiring one of our halls has sufficient experience of live event promotion in the highly competitive London market. Please be advised that if we were ultimately able to offer a date to hire, it would be subject to a satisfactory credit check of the Promoter. The scale of deposit required from a Promoter will vary from a minimum of 30% of the hire fee up to 120% of the hire fee depending upon the credit check result. Any unsatisfactory credit check result may preclude Southbank Centre from working with the Promoter.
Type of Event(Required)

Please tell us your preferred venue for this event

We can only accept applications for artistic hire for our auditoria, and no other spaces at Southbank Centre. Please note we are only able to consider enquiries relating to the Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall at this time.
Venues(Required)
Will the event be ticketed and open to the public?(Required)
Provide specific details of the artistic content of the event – including names for all artists participating with accompanying CVs/bios and any available audio/video samples if the artists are unknown to us. We must have named artists proposed – we cannot hold any dates for general programming ideas. For classical music concerts we also require submission of the proposed repertoire. Any classical repertoire will be subject to clash checking.
Preferred dates / alternative dates for proposed event(Required)
Please be aware that we also operate a cancellations list in case any availability arises nearer to the time (though we cannot guarantee any suitable availability arising as a result of cancellations). Include the year in your date enquiry.
Please provide a sense as to where and how the event will be marketed: who is the target audience and how do you intend to reach them? We require evidence that the project can reasonably attract an audience commensurate to the auditorium capacity – this could be achieved either through evidence that the artist has previously attracted audiences of this size in other London venues or through evidence of the commitment to support the concert with the publicity and marketing plans which will maximise exposure and impact for the event.